Continuous Improvement Leader

Continuous Improvement Leader

Job Description

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role.

Neither are we.

Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference.

Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU. 

Please note: This role is located at our Berkeley Mill in Hendersonville, NC.

Full Kimberly-Clark relocation benefits provided.

In this role, you will:

Responsibilities:


* Implement loss control throughout the organization by visibly demonstrating that safety is embraced as a value. 


* Support and champion safety in your manufacturing site and team by driving educational and behavioral processes to a world class level, through the application of OPEX, LSS and T4E tools. 


* Develops, facilitates, and manages Operational Excellence improvement plans for focus areas


* Develops and executes site strategy for OPEX implementation in collaboration and partnership with Site Leadership and KCNA SC partners.


* Leads the facility in annual strategy deployment, developing the capability of key thinkers, and ensuring management infrastructure is in place to achieve goals.


* Facilitates Kaizen events within the Mill


* Ensures existing management infrastructures (i.e.

Centerlining, Tier Meetings and KPI’s, Leader Standard Work) are interlinked to provide a coherent framework in the Mill


* Provide continuous feedback to Leadership team, consistent with OPEX Mindsets, the K-C Ways of Working, and the Culture of Accountability


* Facilitates, promotes, and supports OPEX, LEAN, and T4E cultural development


* Coaches and develops hourly team in the use of LEAN techniques and thinking


* Uses LEAN assessment tools to identify opportunities and gap areas


* Facilitates the development, introduction, and tracking of standard work for leaders within focus areas; Identifies capability gaps and prioritizes activities to address these gaps


* Develops, leads, and improves the Training For Excellence (T4E) program for the site including work direction to the hourly training team


* Understand the needs of the Customer (our Employees) and design the Training program to meet those needs.


* Support the development and application of framework standards for management systems and processes to ensure compliance with Plan, Do, Check, and Adjust


* Provide standard mechanism to track and report scorecard of Operational Excellence transformation measures


* Understand the P2030 expectations and incorporate standards where applicable across the site.


* Provide cost leadership for the site including the identification and leadership of cost savings projects as well as trackin...